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posted on September 7th, 2004, 10:13 am

Actually I believe it is ditto.

posted on September 7th, 2004, 10:17 am

Believing can lead to misinformation. Take a dictionary.

posted on September 7th, 2004, 10:50 am

Or just type it up in google and see how many addresses used the same wording, ALOT did in this case

[Lt.Cdr.White]

posted on September 7th, 2004, 11:24 am

Last edited by Lt.Cdr.White on September 7th, 2004, 3:04 pm, edited 1 time in total.

I took a dictionary before I posted... but the wrong one as it seems. A German "Foreign Words Dictionary".

The spelling depends on from which word you make it.

If it's Italian-based (the original is "detto" in that case), ditto makes sense.
If it's Latin-based or taken from a French variation, it's "dito" (that's the way it's written in France and Germany).

The Oxford Dictionary has it "ditto". So it's language based.
Funny thing. I thought it should be the same in all languages, but it is not.

However, "dito" looks more classic. After all, I'm pro Europe, so I'll stay with dito.

PS: That google thing generally has two problems: 1) It shows names and words with other meaning as well. 2) It shows all the pages where people wrote it wrong.

Works with many words. Try many and manny for example. Only one is right concerning "a large amount of things", but both give lots of hits in google.

In our case, dito and ditto give about the same amount of hits, with some more for dito. That shows that both variants exist, as stated above.

posted on September 7th, 2004, 7:53 pm

In otherwords, you found a way to make it so no one win. It's ok, I can't stand to lose either

posted on September 8th, 2004, 1:30 pm

lol

posted on September 9th, 2004, 12:39 am

we are really off topic. and it wasn't me this time. lol. ^_^

posted on September 9th, 2004, 7:00 pm

isant ditto the name of one of those poke'man

posted on September 9th, 2004, 7:51 pm

Yeah but it's originally suppose to be a word.

[Lt.Cdr.White]

posted on September 9th, 2004, 8:29 pm

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It's derivated from the past participle of "to say" in Latin and the Italian counterpart, thus the meaning "the same as stated before".

posted on September 9th, 2004, 11:32 pm

Latin...uh-huh. I thought this place was for gamers.

posted on September 9th, 2004, 11:33 pm

true

posted on September 10th, 2004, 12:00 am

lol we stayed on subject for 4 posts. lol

posted on September 10th, 2004, 8:51 pm

It's impossible for any topic to stay on topic. IMPOSSIBLE.

posted on September 10th, 2004, 10:36 pm

We've basically exausted everything we can say about the subject Optec posted about. Then we just go nuts.